Sentence examples for error of believing from inspiring English sources

The company made the error of believing its cash flows were reliable and utility-like.

"Standish, floating in the water, concentrated his thoughts on the people aboard the Arabella and as a result fell into the common error of believing the converse was true".

For reading, I assigned not, strictly speaking, biographies but books that I love and that say something cautionary and wise about the error of believing that you can ever really know another person.

Because most of them seem to be falling into the serious error of "believing their own P.R".

Many people make the error of believing that the banksters are dull, humorless stiffs in gray suits.

According to David Kirkpatrick, Saverin "made the fatal error of not believing in Facebook".

Rather, he is comparing the relative merits of rival epistemic strategies (oriented respectively toward the goals of avoiding error and believing truth).

Bayesians and others argue that the level of statistical significance should vary, depending on the relative costs of type I error (believing something false) and type II error (failing to believe something true).

Now, thanks to decades of trial and error, Chevron believes it will be able to recover up to 80percentt of the oil from the field, more than twice the industry's average recovery rate, which is typically around 35percentt.

Accordingly, while we concede that the small sample size used in this investigation may have increased the likelihood of a type I error, we believe that the striking similarities between the present findings and the findings reported by others who studied larger subject cohorts provides substantial support to our data.

The inveterate error of policymakers is to believe that what they do will really work out in the way they think.